The horror movie previously titled From Below has a new name and director, along with a revised creative direction. Now titled Don’t Look, the upcoming creature feature will be directed by Kiah Roache-Turner, who is reuniting with Alyla Browne after working with the young actor on Sting.
The project has already attracted attention for its unsettling premise and the filmmaker’s promise of some deeply disturbing scenes. Roache-Turner told Variety that the movie is “scary as all hell” and predicted that certain moments would “traumatize people very deeply.”
The change comes after scheduling issues prevented the original director, Sean Loch, from taking charge of the film. Loch wrote the screenplay, which was originally intended to serve as his directorial debut. Cornerstone is handling international sales at the American Film Market.
What is the horror movie previously known as From Below about?
Don’t Look follows 15-year-old Riley, played by Browne, who travels through the Australian outback with her father. The story takes a terrifying turn when they encounter two seemingly abandoned cars at an isolated desert crossing.
“It was one of the best scripts I’ve ever read,” Roache-Turner told Variety. He added that he agreed to direct so quickly that his “tongue nearly got whiplash.”
Alyla Browne leads the cast as Riley, reuniting with Roache-Turner after starring in his 2024 spider horror film Sting. The actor has also appeared in Furiosa and Sonic the Hedgehog 3. George Pullar, Masha Basman and Stephen Peacocke also star in Don’t Look.
The screenplay comes from Loch, which spent six weeks among the Black List’s trending horror scripts. Filmmaker Joel Anderson, known for Lake Mungo and Late Night with the Devil, also helped develop the project.
Roache-Turner is currently in post-production on the World War I horror film Lady Death. With Don’t Look, he is returning to creature-focused horror, but he has kept the film’s central monster largely under wraps.
Originally reported on ComingSoon.
